JW. Yours looks really nice. I was getting over half my pond covered with plants so I had to do something. Here are a few pics I took today. It still feels like summer but I hear colder weather will be here by the weekend. I just switched to cold weather fish food the other day. The second pic is a view from the bog towards the main part of the pond.
Thanks Tula. I know I needed to add more gravel because I think it got compacted especially after our tenant’s mother over the summer tripped and fell in the bog! They had to pick out broken pieces of her wine glass from it. Fortunately she was okay. I took another picture this morning. They were waiting to get fed and pretty active! Yes it was so easy taking care of them this year. I had one goldfish with a swim bladder problem otherwise everything else was excellent with about 10 Koi and 40-50 goldfish.Wow your bog looks amazing ! Mine is a bit thinned out and needs more gravel...have no idea where it goes - LOL ! So happy you've had a carefree year of ponding
he's trained them to line up for food; Keith just likes to show how talented they (he) are (is)!Awesome pic
Looks beautiful. Couldn't tell where the bog is though. Also, how big is the pond?
Name of the red and pink flowers plant?
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Darn net and fences always in my way!
Thanks. So the lilies are in the pond and everything before that is the bog. I guess my bog is about 3 feet wide at that point but the bog plants drape over the dividing wall so it looks much larger. I actually built my bog inside my pond. because I was under strict orders not to make the pond any larger by my wife. Lol. I put down a stone wall between the two and put new liner in the bog. It was all done “wet” as I only partially drained the pond and left the fish in when I built the dividing wall. The pond is about 12x8 and the bog is about 6 x3 and the same depth as the pond which is 42 inches. The whole pond and bog holds about 3000 gallons. I’m constantly pulling plants out of the bog otherwise it would be totally out of control! Because the bog is so deep it needs a pretty powerful pump. The one I’m using now is only half as strong as the pump I tried earlier in the summer. I was using 3600 GPF. I need to change the exterior piping from flexible to a hard pipe to be able to properly connect the better pump. I also use a bead filter for the pond as well. It has separate piping and does not run through the bog.
Thanks. All the pretty flowers are actually impatiens. If you put their roots in some rocks on the border where they are wet all the time they will thrive in a pond even in hot sun and high temperatures with zero maintenance. Basically I bought just one small flat of them in the spring and all of these grew from those tiny little plants!Name of the red and pink flowers plant?
Awesome! Will be mine!!!
